Amarillo, Texas
HISTORY
Welcome to Amarillo, Texas
The Yellow Rose of Texas.
Amarillo, Texas was established on a site along the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad in 1887 on the Llano Estacado in the Texas Panhandle. Amarillo is the county seat of Potter County, Texas, and is closer to the capitals of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma than the capital of Texas, Austin.
PHOTOS
Sights Around Amarillo, Texas
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Cadillacs On The Horizon
The Cadillac Ranch, located on the outskirts of Amarillo, Texas, has 10 Cadillacs buried in the earth at a 60-degree angle, the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Also, the Cadillacs are buried in chronological order, starting with a 1949 Club Sedan on the west and a 1963 Sedan de Ville on the east. The sequence of the Cadillacs was intentional to highlight the evolution of the tail-fin.
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Cadillac Ranch
Created in 1974 by a group collectively known as the Ant Farm, Cadillac Ranch consists of 10 Cadillacs from 1949 - 1963 buried nose-first into the ground on the outskirts of Amarillo, Texas. Purpose-built, the Cadillac Ranch was created to make a statement about innovation, the American Dream, and consumerism. The evolution of the tail-fin, shown through the chronological order of the Cadillacs, is supposed to highlight the absurdity of car design that made vehicles increasingly unsafe at any speed.
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